Cyber Polygon 2021 - Are you ready for the COVID of the Internet?

[Miller]

Digitalisation is accelerating everywhere. New digital ecosystems are forming all around us, creating unnoticed linkages across services and supply chains.
As the world grows more interconnected, the speed of development makes it difficult to assess the impact of change.
A secure approach to digital development today will determine the shape of our future for decades to come. Having the right skills in place is key to protecting organisations from attack now.

What is Cyber Polygon?

Cyber Polygon is a unique cybersecurity event that combines the world's largest technical training exercise for corporate teams and an online conference featuring senior officials from international organisations and leading corporations.
The 2021 conference discusses the key risks of digitalisation and best practice for the secure development of digital ecosystems.
The 2021 technical exercise builds and tests the skills needed to protect our industries, centring on a targeted supply-chain attack.
Every year, the training brings together a global businesses and government agencies to collaborate on technical exercises. The live stream draws in millions of spectators from across the world.

2020 results
120 teams from 29 countries took part in the technical cybersecurity training in 2020. The live stream viewership reached 5 million from 57 nations.
A comprehensive report with detailed results of Cyber Polygon 2020 is available here.

Cyber Polygon in 2021

This year discussions during the live-streamed conference will centre on secure development of ecosystems. With global digitalisation further accelerating and people, companies, and countries becoming ever more interconnected, security of every single element of a supply-chain is key to ensuring the sustainability of the whole system.
During the technical exercise, participants will hone their practical skills in mitigating a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real time.

(copy/pasted from the WEF page)

This event will happen in July 9th.


Cyber Polygon official website (archive)
World Economic Forum (archive)

It's that cybersecurity is part of the Great Reset. It's also interesting that this event is taking place a couple of months after the cyber attacks that targeted Colonial Pipeline and JBS. To me, this echoes the Crimson Contagion, another global exercise about a sudden pandemic in 2019.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

"It's the year of the supply chain attack" - Mental Outlaw, 2021

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

"It's the year of the supply chain attack" - Mental Outlaw, 2021

Wait, was I not supposed to be doing that before this year?

 

[Kill a Troon for Pikamee]

This event will happen in July 9th.

Fact check: FALSE. This event has already started, as attested by numerous "cyber attacks" in the US and EU. "We swear this cyber attack was totally real, luckily we were able to recover all the bitcoins after paying the ransom" yeah okay sounds like a totally real attack by real evil russian hackers

 

[VIPPER?]

All these events are just scams to get what would be normally multi-billion dollar security audits done for pennies and "exposure", same as HackASat and anything ever done at Defcon

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

All these events are just scams to get what would be normally multi-billion dollar security audits done for pennies and "exposure", same as HackASat and anything ever done at Defcon

If you can game-ify an industry full of people born from the internet, then you can literally make them do work for free. It actually makes me sick seeing people hand over exploits for free, when they could've made a security firm or research arm out of with the money from selling it to whatever globohomo company had it.

 

[Aidan]

I'm not convinced that all the attacks are false flags of some sort working towards a specific goal, but these would be much easier and potentially more effective false flags to use going forward to justify a myriad of things that expand federal government control in the ever-important online world.

Regarding Cyber Polygon, it sounds like a racket. Now that old tech-illiterate execs are seeing the potential for insecure networks affecting their bottom line in a big way directly and indirectly, you can just fearmonger to get them to give you some shekels and know they won't do shit when they get back to their offices and will then call on people they met at the conferences to fix things after they're broken.

I'm not gonna believe normal companies give a shit about information security until they start devoting money to it before shit hits the fan. Unfortunately for them it isn't cheap but it's usually cheaper than getting wrecked by a magnitude or more these days.